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Machine wash & dry flash drives?

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As above... I inadvertently left a flash drive in my bathrobe pocket and forgot all about it. The laundry was done, hot water, hot dry, and sitting there in the machine was a 16GB Ativa flash drive I bought on closeout.

Blew it out with canned air and let it dry a good long time. Popped it in the Mac and all the data is there. Works fine. :shock:

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I've done this several times. Even retrieved one from behind the lint trap. I've never had flash storage ever fail on me.Image
Been watching SSD drives drop in price on a daily basis, and when it becomes financially feasible I hope to abandon spinning platters once and for all.
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I hear that. I'm watching process as well. When I do go for an SSD set of drives I want them to be in the TB range. Preferrablew in the 3-4TB range. I don't mind spending $500 or so but suspect I'll have a bit of a wait for that to happen.
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MIDI Life Crisis wrote:As above... I inadvertently left a flash drive in my bathrobe pocket and forgot all about it. The laundry was done, hot water, hot dry, and sitting there in the machine was a 16GB Ativa flash drive I bought on closeout.

Blew it out with canned air and let it dry a good long time. Popped it in the Mac and all the data is there. Works fine.
Amazing!
That speaks tons as to the reliability of these devices. Imagine if that had been a regular spinning disk?

Once, my iPhone dropped from my shirt pocket to the toilet... Apparently iPhones are not as reliable under extreme circumstances :lol:


Question: So are SSD drives basically a big flash drive with the exact same mechanism as a flash drive? So you guys think they are as reliable as these masochist flash drives?
If so, that alone justifies the currently higher prices. What do you think?
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MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I hear that. I'm watching process as well. When I do go for an SSD set of drives I want them to be in the TB range. Preferrablew in the 3-4TB range. I don't mind spending $500 or so but suspect I'll have a bit of a wait for that to happen.
Right now that is only possible with RAID. 3-4T of SSD for 5 bills? Yea, I'd be jumping on that, too.

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I'm suprised it survived in hot water - I always wash my flash drives on the warm water permanent press cycle and dry on medium-low. And remember to toss one of those anti-static thingies in the dryer; they seem to help keep the data transfer rate at full spec.

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Must have been the anti static thing that restored it. Ha! Only thing on it was the OS 10.9 installer.
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FMiguelez wrote:
MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
Once, my iPhone dropped from my shirt pocket to the toilet... Apparently iPhones are not as reliable under extreme circumstances :lol:
Someone just told they did the same thing and put in a bag of rice overnight and it worked the next day.
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